No Contact Family Culture, Economically Motivated [Repost]

With Thanksgiving and the holiday season here, the concept of “No Contact” has always been directly connected to disconnecting from toxic relationships. To look deeper there are notions these No Contact actions are the behaviors of those who were emotionally hurt but, there isn’t conversation on how many of these soured relationship are rooted in failed attempts of exploitation. So No Contact grows into pimping and financial manipulation that seems to not be openly addressed or discussed beyond emotional traumas. In listening to scenarios of those who choose No Contact there is always a hidden layer of financial trauma and a recession indicator for why family dynamics turn sour when the winners start to see others they feel don’t deserve success, start to win.

In listening to many of the people in the recent Oprah open discussion on cutting family off; watching Jackson Family American Dream mini series of the Jackson’s; viewings of the Braxton Family Values, all of these seem to have a disturbing theme, the animosity of getting success, money, fame, access, advancement, and social currency going wrong.

Hearing all of those who chose No Contact, financial abuse seems to be the main factor. And those who can’t detail “why,” the stories within the segments, recalling the choice to cut off, but they didn’t go that deep. Only one of the guest admitted they were subjected to violence when financial abuse wasn’t allowed. All of them detailed what happened when control doesn’t work out, resulting in aggression, and absolute dishonesty about what triggered the beef.

Many people see the culture of obeying, resulting in bullying and blackmailing to keep financial advancements and access, viable. Those who don’t cut off family, state being resentful and binded as a form of silent servitude. Advancement within the US economy seems to trigger competition, control, amplifies entitlement. As the economy stability becomes unpredictable, then scarcity grows. Many who are the abusers are now becoming demanding in expectations and strong arming those who now “have,” due to the once comfortable dealing with mass layoffs in 2025. Those practicing bullying have been known to want their abused to give up their lives to help the family who have been unemphatic to those who were comfortable being better off than others.

For women, many families are not transparent about dowry practices. Women are not aware of families having disdain when they choose to not follow through on secret marriage offerings their parents planned to benefit. For men, some are even promised by their mothers to other friends for the sake of social currency and actual currency. If the son chooses their own spouse its been the catalyst for the aggression towards the son and the new daughter in law.

For those who become entitled and refuse to work hard for themselves, they essential hold their support system at proverbial gunpoint. When boundaries are set you see violent reactions and that makes people realize envy can result in unsafe scenarios. The choice of cutting off becomes discernment. Who wants to celebrate wins around family members who resent your success and now have to worry about their family targeting their own blood as a common stickup kid to make it.

Cut off culture isn’t new. Seriously, who’s more “no contact” than ex spouses. And when spouses become jealous its the end of civility. We also see violent entitlement when political imbalance causes resentment when others economically grow over stagnate communities.

For those woefully insecure, the rat race of being better than others appear to bleed into family competition, to the point of winning at any cost, at the expense of civility and empathy. The psychology discussion doesn’t seem to bring up the veracity of finances and entitlement in modern society. Economic jealousy in this new economic reality is something people will need to consider even for family selling out their own. When people are greedy or power hungry, family can see their own blood as opps and people should have right stay away.